Supplier Quality Engineer

Overview:
The Supplier Quality Engineer is responsible to oversee and manage the Waters’ supplier’s Quality Assurance with the intent to deliver high quality products to Waters and Waters’ CMOs.

**Responsibilities**:

- Build and sustain long term win-win relationships with APAC suppliers to ensure understanding and fulfilment of Waters’ quality and operations requirements
- Coordinate and manage supplier relationship alongside sister plants and CMOs
- Ensure the effectiveness of APAC suppliers escalation activities to minimize risk to Waters business and operations
- Plan and execute an effective APAC supplier audits program
- Collaborate with the supplier in root cause analysis and corrective action plans
- Support Operations, Supply Chain and CMOs to resolve supplier technical issues and implement SCAR action effectively
- Act as Waters QA approval for Waters / CMOs’ First Article Inspection buy off and Part Acceptance activities
- Regularly communicate with Operations and Supply Chain to identify improvement opportunities for COPQ, Quality and Productivity
- Participate in internal quality audit activities

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree (Engineering discipline) in Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics or Electro-Mechanical
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in a Supplier Quality / Quality Engineering / Engineering capacity in Manufacturing environment
- Auditor/ Lead auditor trained with minimum 1 years of leading supplier / internal audit
- Strong knowledge and proven skills in managing and developing mechanical, electrical or electronics commodity suppliers
- Agile minded with clear strategic thinking and accountability in execution to deliver results
- Strong interpersonal skills towards global and cross-functional team; behaving with integrity, transparency and humility
- Experience in using quality tools such as SPC, FMEA, MSA or 8D

Company Description:
Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for more than 60 years. With more than 7,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We’re the problem solvers and innovators that aren’t afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We’re all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow.
- Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status._